just want to break into my usual
bitchy life rant
to say a fond farewell
to Arthur Miller
the world needs its artists, writers and great thinkers
especially in this age of nuclear weapons, terror, war, religious fundamentalism and all out crapola
that North Korea admits they have Nukes
and the world loses Miller right afterwards
sorta seems like the way the world is running these days
less beauty
more ugly
but then
i'm guessing people have thought this way
during and after every war in the history of wars..
i remember on a vacation in London
i went to a modern art exhibition
and traced the changes of art before, during and after world war two
from artists in occupied Paris..
it was amazing
the colors changed to blacks
the wonder
turned to lost
the beginnings
looked like endings..
that was over 50 years ago
and those artists are now long gone
their children and their grandchildren
their great children
walk the earth today
but the lessons
of art turned black
under opression
of paint turned crimson
under a military horizon
is a lesson that never goes out of style
but i digress
and this rant has certainly spun around in a more abstract way then usual
i guess all im trying to say is
bring on the poets, the painters, the philosophers..
we need them now
